Douglas County IL Archives Biographies.....Petty, Joseph August 24, 1855 - 
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Source: Source: Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, pages 270-271
Author: Gresham, John M

Joseph Bradley Petty, one of the successful business men of Tuscola, engaged in
merchandising and identified with several other enterprises of the city, was
born in Hendricks county, Indiana, August 24, 1855, and is a son of Nathan and
Ann Mariah (Wood) Petty, the former born in Chatham county, North Carolina, and
the latter in Mercer county, Kentucky. Mr. Petty was engaged in farming for
several years in Champaign county, and from 1884 to 1891 he resided in Iantha,
Missouri, where he was engaged in blacksmithing and hardware merchandising. In
the latter year he returned to Illinois and settled in Tuscola, where he has
since worked at his trade, and in 1898 opened up a general store in connection
with his other business.

In 1881 he was united in marriage to Miss Priscilla Mars, of Champaign county.
They had five boys: Earle Shirley, Byron Talmage, Clara Marrs, Virgil Ira and
William Nathan. He owns his own home and store buildings, is a hard working man,
and is one of the honorable and representative citizens of Tuscola. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the Court of Honor. Mrs. Petty,
a lady of good intelligence and fine business tact, is a daughter of William and
Mary Jane (Sutherland) Marrs, the former a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky,
and the later of Ohio. At the age of four years William Marrs, with his father,
John Marrs, moved to Shelby county, Ohio, where William was raised. He moved to
Macon county, Illinois, in 1859, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Priscilla Marrs taught school seven years in Champaign county, Illinois, then
became Mrs. Petty. She has the agency and is field manager for the Viavi Company
for Douglas county, and has also the agency and field management for the
Magnetic Shield Company, of Chicago, in her county. Viavi is a purely vegetable
compound, the outgrowth of a physician's prescription. To his years of
experimenting was added an incredible amount of patience and money, and Viavi in
its present form is the result. It is virtually predigested food and is used
with most perfect safety by the most delicate, young and old. This remedy is
world famed, and is successfully used by every nation. The motto of the Viava
worker is "The higher physical life of woman," and thus preserve the health of
the race. Mrs. Petty has, in her six years' agency, done a business of over
$4,600. She is thoroughly capable, and with the time that she has given to her
special work she has been remarkably successful.

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